Edgar Cayce Readings, 2533-8

Time and Place: 11:05 to 11:40 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Virginia.

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GC: You will have before you the enquiring mind present here, [2533], born December 22, 1904 in Norfolk, Va., together with the information in his readings of May 29, 1943 and October 31, 1942.
From the highest source in the Christ Consciousness available to this entity you will give detailed and comprehensive instructions necessary for the entity to know, speak, and understand the proper use of the Sacred Omnific Word of Power or Logos and to have conscious access to Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence. You will answer the questions that may be asked.
EC: In this, as we find, the entity is asking that it knows not of. This ability - to speak, to apply, to be present in Omnipresence - is attained by having fully, completely met all that has been error in the experience of the body, mind and soul in the earth experience.
Not that this is not attainable, but one grows to that consciousness in the application of the faith in and the consciousness of being at-one with the divine that is within.
This may not then be given as yet.
(Q) Is the transmutation of human flesh to flesh divine the real mystery of the Crucifixion and Resurrection? Explain this mystery.
(A) There is no mystery to the transmutation of the body of the Christ. For having attained in the physical consciousness the at-onement with the Father-Mother-God, the completeness was such that with the disintegration of the body - as indicated in the manner in which the shroud, the robe, the napkin lay - there was then the taking of the body-physical form. This was the manner. It was not a transmutation, as of changing from one to another. Just as indicated in the manner in which the body-physical entered the Upper Room with the doors closed, not by being a part of the wood through which the body passed but by forming from the ether waves that were within the room, because of a meeting prepared by faith. For as had been given, "Tarry ye in Jerusalem - in the upper chamber - until YE be endued with power from on high."
As indicated in the spoken word to Mary in the garden, "Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father." The body (flesh) that formed that seen by the normal or carnal eye of Mary was such that it could not be handled until there had been the conscious union with the sources of all power, of all force.
But afterward - when there had been the first, second, third, fourth and even the sixth meeting - He THEN said: "Put forth thy hand and touch the nail prints in my hands, in my feet. Thrust thy hand into my side and BELIEVE." This indicated the transformation.
For as indicated when the soul departs from a body (this is not being spoken of the Christ, you see), it has all of the form of the body from which it has passed - yet it is not visible to the carnal mind unless that mind has been, and is, attuned to the infinite. Then it appears, in the infinite, as that which may be handled, with all the attributes of the physical being; with the appetites, until these have been accorded to a unit of activity with universal consciousness.
Just as it was with the Christ-body: "Children, have ye anything here to eat?" This indicated to the disciples and the Apostles present that this was not transmutation but a regeneration, recreation of the atoms and cells of body that might, through desire, masticate material things - fish and honey (in the honeycomb) were given.
As also indicated later, when He stood by the sea and the disciples and Apostles who saw Him from the distance could not, in the early morning light, discern - but when He spoke, the voice made the impression upon the mind of the beloved disciple such that he spoke, "It is the Lord!" The body had prepared fire upon the earth - fire, water, the elements that make for creation. For as the spirit is the beginning, water combined of elements is the mother of creation.
Not transmutation of flesh but creation, in the pattern indicated.
Just as when there are those various realms about the solar system in which each entity may find itself when absent from the body, it takes on in those other realms not an earthly form but a pattern - conforming to the same dimensional elements of that individual planet or space.
(Q) How may I project a counterpart of my conscious awareness to any given place desired and comprehend or even take part in events there?
(A) Read what we have just been giving. This is an explanation of how. For it takes first spirit and mind form, and may be aware of the elements in space. For time and space are the elements of man's own concept of the infinite and are not realities as would be any bodily element in the earth - as a tree, a rose, a bird, an animal, as even a fellow being. Yet, just as the body may in its own material mind visualize, draw, a concept, a picture of an incident that has happened in time, so may the body in spirit and in spiritual mind project itself, be conscious of elements, be conscious of form, by and through spirit mind - as patterned in a conscious mind. Mind, then, becomes as a stream, with its upper and lower stratum, with that which moves swiftly or that which is resting upon either spirit or physical being.
These come, then, as flashes to a conscious mind. They may be gradually sustained, maintained. Just as mind may be projected. [See 2533-8, Par. R2, newspaper article.]
Here we will have an illustration: In a camp near here, near this particular spot or place ye occupy, there has been a gift taken by someone else. There will be a projection of the thought, "This MUST BE RETURNED!" and it will be. For here we have the parties to this physical condition existent - right and wrong, good and bad, spirit, mind, body. They are parts of this happening, and it is now being replaced.
(Q) How may I recognize sincere seekers of the Light, incarnate, and attune to those disincarnate?
(A) This, too, has just been explained in how and where and in what manner there may be the projection; or even as the body may interpret it when the body in itself may levitate itself from matter. Begin with self, then; attuning self in mind to spirit, until there is the ability in self to see self levitated from its own body. See it pass by. See it stand aside. See it act in all of the activities. This, then, will give the entity that ability within self to discern incarnate and disincarnate entities in their own activity.
Begin with self, not outside of self, if you would keep your own rational self.
(Q) Give meaning and pronunciation of the word J-A-H-H-E-V-A-H-E.
(A) Java; meaning the ability within itself to know itself to be itself and yet one with, or one apart from, the infinite; to be a part of that realm of helpers; to know self as a part of and in that realm where the angels are, or in that realm of the individuals who have been, who are, with the Announcer, the Lord of the Way, and who have attained the consciousness of the Christ-within.
(Q) What is meant by the Hidden Way?
(A) Just as we have been trying to explain to the entity - the finding of the consciousness of self within as related to, as being at-one with or as a part of, or separated from, the whole.
For as was given so oft, this is found within. For thy body is indeed the pattern of the heavenly body, yet it only grows to same, as it grows away from same; though it may be within the three-dimensional realm. This is the Hidden Way. For as the entity uses, never abuses but uses self in service, it finds the Way. For who is the greater among you? "He that is the servant of all." Who would know the Hidden Way? They who seek to do His biddings alone.
(Q) The Holy Breath?
(A) This is the same, only in activity; that is, one may be aware of the at-onement but to see, to feel - There are not words to express, for we are expressing same in material terms or expressions of awarenesses in a consciousness made known as it plays upon the attributes of a physical being. As we say, the All-Seeing Eye of God, the All-Seeing Eye of self can only be attained when in attune to God. And when attuned, He hath breathed the Holy Breath on the activity of the entity.
(Q) The light that cannot fail?
(A) This is the Christ. For it has succeeded, in that it has in physical consciousness passed through and attained. And when that light enters, by the individual entity opening the consciousness of self to that abiding presence, the light has entered.
What is light? That from which, through which, in which may be found all things, out of which all things come. Thus the first of everything that may be visible, in earth, in heaven, in space, is of that light - IS that light!
(Q) The Book of Life?
(A) The record that the individual entity itself writes upon the skein of time and space, through patience - and is opened when self has attuned to the infinite, and may be read by those attuning to that consciousness.
(Q) The Rolls of Graphael?
(A) The records of an individual, as an archangel. The records of those activities with the Announcer, the Way, in association with the CHRIST-CONSCIOUSNESS.
(Q) The Book of God's Remembrances?
(A) This is the Book of Life.
(Q) The Akashic Records?
(A) Those made by the individual, as just indicated.
(Q) God is the ten - the Holy Jod?
(A) This is an expression, not a fact - but that which leads to, directs towards activity in the associations with others.
(Q) Any other suggestions?
(A) Be not faint of heart because ye have not been entrusted with the Word, the Power attained to. Begin within self. For thy activities are worthy. Don't abuse. Do use.
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BACKGROUND

See 2533-6 and 2533-7.

REPORTS

4/03/63 GD's note: To this date Mr. [2533] has remained an active participating member of A.R.E.
9/13/66 Newspaper article from Greensboro Record [in re 2533-8, Par. 6-A; see also EC rdg. quotes from 853-8, 2067-11, used with 2533-8 and Dr. Bernard item in the A.R.E. JOURNAL 1/67, World News Spotlight.]:
ASTRAL PROJECTION SCIENTIST DR. E. C. BERNARD AT WORK IN LABORATORY
PROFESSOR SAYS: BODY-MIND SEPARATION POSSIBLE by Rob Wood
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina State University psychologist is convinced the minds of many individuals can leave their bodies and drift away, uninhibited by physical barriers or distance.
The phenomenon is called astral (out-of-body) projection. Dr. E. E. Bernard, who is doing research on the phenomenon, said it is "like lying on a sofa, getting up and seeing your body still lying on the couch."
The mind, he said in an interview, may remain in the same room or be projected thousands of miles. Separation of mind and body may last from a few seconds to a few hours.
"These experiences definitely are not hallucinations," he said.
Dr. Bernard, 36, said he had uncovered one case where an individual experienced astral projection while sitting at a desk. The mind was projected to a distant city the person had never visited, he said. After the experience, the individual described in detail a street, an office building and the persons he saw.
Dr. Bernard said he investigated and found the street, the building and the people.
Dr. Bernard said his research is not aimed at proving or disproving astral projection because, "I am convinced it is a legitimate phenomenon. In fact I have experienced astral projection."
His first step is to collect data from persons who claim to have experienced out-of-body projection. Dr. Bernard claims he has uncovered several cases of individuals who have experienced astral projection once or twice and others he called "old pros" who "can turn this on and off and control the destination of their minds." Those who experience out-of-body projection once or twice, Dr. Bernard said, "are afraid and worried."
"One individual thought death had called and this person was watching what he thought to be his own dead body. It was not.
"Many others," he added, "are worried they are losing their minds and refuse to tell anyone in fear they will be committed."
He emphasizes that evidence he has gathered indicates that mind projection causes no harm to the individual.
Dr. Bernard is attempting to determine what types of personalities claim to have experienced astral projection; if those who have experienced the phenomenon can learn to control the destination of their minds, and if others can be taught how to project their minds.
"I believe," he said, "that man has the ability to perform this phenomenon. If he can be taught to project and to control, the prospects are staggering."
Dr. Bernard, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Leeds in England, taught at Cambridge before joining the North Carolina State faculty.
He said out-of-body projection is "much more frequent than many people realize, and estimated one out of every 100 persons has experienced it.
"Our objective," he said, "is to find how to produce the phenomenon, how to control it and how to put it to our most beneficial use."
3/16/88 Mr. [2533] died January 2, 1987, at age 83.